On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, John Knight wrote:
> "OhSojourner" <ohsojourner at aol.com> wrote in message
> news:ce660175.0207151511.1ffec2c0 at posting.google.com...>> You wrote:
> > They may not have been celebrities, but they did make
> > important contributions. And FWIW, those individuals have accomplished
> > far more than you or anyone here probably ever will.
>> I don't even buy that. Their only contribution was a negative one. They
> encouraged women to enter fields they could not possibly succeed in,
> initiated a worthless gender war, tore our social fabric apart, and doubled
> our already high divorce rate.
This is your opinion. It is not a fact.
> Just by not being that big a negative influence, ALL of the men on this
> forum accomplish far more than they ever did, every day. On top of that,
> what you continue to ignore is that 400 men got patents yesterday, and the
> day before, and, ..., the majority of which are far more advanced, far more
> important to society and technological achievement, and require one heck of
> a lot more intelligence, than "inventing" a compiler that she didn't even
> get a patent for, half a century ago http://christianparty.net/patents.htm
Oh I don't know about that. You're a pretty negative influence.
Rowena.